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Three machines M1, M2 and M3 produce nominally identical items. The evidence of the engineers past experience is that 5 % of the output from machine M1 is faulty, 3.5 % of the output from machine M2 is faulty and 2.5 % of the output from machine M3 is faulty. On a given day, M1 has produced 15 % of the total output, M2 has produced 30 % and M3 the remainder.
An item selected at random is found to be faulty.